Employee Revenge

Has anyone experienced this situation? I shopped an appliance store and I had to give out a phone number and email to monitor for contact attempts. After I told the salesman that I had changed my mind, I started getting hang ups and my email has blown up with sales people claiming I had gone on their website and requested information about mortgages, health insurance, time shares, etc. The calls don't leave a message and if I answer the phone it is a hang up. I feel strongly that it is that particular salesman because the phones have a 512 area code. What do you do?

I had this happen once from a car dealership. First, I learned a lesson: Use a temporary phone number and email address whenever possible.

I contacted my scheduler and said that I was having a problem: The car salesman was calling me 10-12 times a day from different phone numbers. He was also sending several emails each day. I don't know what happened thereafter, but the calls completely stopped. I suspect that it was passed on to the project manager and then to the client...

For awhile, one of the hubby's old phones called a woman many times per day, every day. He was not using the phone. He was working, talking in person with other people, eating, etc. This did not involve a mystery shop. It involved a bat-crap crazy phone. I am not defending the salesperson. I merely point out that for whatever reason, phones can call when no one is directly operating them.

The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy. - Corrie Ten Boom
We have met the enemy and he is us, - Pogo

Man! This why we have a "junk phone"! Phone creeps give me the eeby jeebies even at my age. With our plan it's just as cheep to have an extra phone - it's a funky cheapie, but we use the # to give out just for verification purposes.

I've mentioned this before, never give out your regular phone# that rings. I use a Google Voice# that is associated with my cell or home #. It's free to create and it's a free phone#. You have the option to forward that # to your cell/home to ring otherwise anyone that calls the Goog Voice# wont bother you. You'll get an email and voice transcription of the msg. Always use a separate gmail address for mystery shopping. See google voice/hangouts for creating the new phone#.

I just won a 25.00 restaurant gift card from Nissan..so, I go to pick it up and I'm met by a very aggressive salesman trying to sell me a car (what else). I tell him, I'm not buying a car, am here to pick up my gift, they mailed me the promotion. I was asked and gave my # out...so, I get home and here comes an odd # and someone speaking in a different language. I now am getting odd numbers and hang ups, lesson learned.

I always use to get calls from the MF call center until I started using the Google Voice#. Now my phone doesn't ring anymore so I'm not bothered. I just get an email that someone called and a transcription.

With the heavy accents some of those callers have I bet those messages are VERY interesting to read :-)

@7star wrote:

I always use to get calls from the MF call center until I started using the Google Voice#. Now my phone doesn't ring anymore so I'm not bothered. I just get an email that someone called and a transcription.

Not only does Google Voice translate the call, they record it for you to playback anytime in your email.

@KathyG wrote:

With the heavy accents some of those callers have I bet those messages are VERY interesting to read :-)

@7star wrote:

I always use to get calls from the MF call center until I started using the Google Voice#. Now my phone doesn't ring anymore so I'm not bothered. I just get an email that someone called and a transcription.